My Experience on Steemit and Plans to Contribute to its growth by @afunkycares

Greetings friends and supporters of Steem4Nigeria 😊

Trust we're doing great? Welcome to my entry for this amazing contest hitched on "my experience on Steemit and Plans to Contribute to its growth. Special thanks to the organizer, admin @reminiscence.

Your first experience with Cryptocurrency and how you got to know about Steemit

My first experience with Cryptocurrency was actually Steemit. Though I heard about Bitcoin around 2015, one of my pastors, was explaining a few things about to a group of us. But I couldn't fathom anything ,it was too complex to me. So I didn't even bother to know more. The name alone "bitcoin" sounded strange to my hearing.

I came across Steemit during the lockdown through a dear sis, @talktofaith. I saw some e-fliers on her status and I chatted her up to learn more. At first, I doubted it. But when she told me she has made some withdrawals from it, I decided to give it a try ,especially at the COVID period when economy had started declining.
And my journey on Steemit began in November 2020.

Your journey so far on Steemit and what you planned to achieve

Well, my journey on Steemit so far so good, it's been quite interesting. Not rosy though, there are moments of excitement, especially when you receive unexpected big upvotes and moments of hopes when there will be no votes. But you just encourage yourself to keep writing.

Also, I have been able to learn a great deal of things on Steemit. Steemit is indeed a learning yet earning field. My knowledge on , food& cooking, cryptocurrency,health, technology, sociocultural aspects of life, diverse lifestyles, geographical aspects, tourism etc has improved.

Another interesting part of my journey is that
I was able to interact and make friends across the world on Steemit. I have Steemit friends from different parts of the world and different walks of life. Meeting them maynot have been possible without Steemit. Such as friends from Ghana, Venezuela, India, Pakistan, North America, Bangladesh and several others.

What is the most exciting innovation the Steemit team has introduced? Discuss.

To me, the most exciting innovation is like a blessing in disguise. And this is the club status At first,it feels like a deprivement of one's entitlement. But now, it's actually a blessing and I'm excited about it. Why,you may ask?

Rather than earning and selling off Steem. You power up a certain percentage. The Steem you accumulated through powerups actually stays in your wallet and they all belong to you. When you eventually build your Steempower, the benefits are a lot;

1. You save up steem for yourself in form of Steempower
2. Your votes count and you enjoy bigger curation rewards
3. Your influence on the Steem Blockchain grows
4. You can be a good support to communities and newbies through delegations
   ....and many more

Now, everyone is becoming a 🐬 dolphin, an orca , a 🐋 whale etc building their Steem power, enjoying more earnings 😀 and becoming self-sustaining, even attaining each dolphin level, such as dolphin, 2x dolphin,3x dolphin etc attracts special dolphin upvotes from sc01. Thanks to #club5050 #club75 & #club100 innovation!

How do you intend on promoting Steemit in your country and also how you can contribute to the growth of the platform?

For any project to be sustained and growing, regular promotion is important.
First, I intend to introduce Steemit to a couple of people who can invest in Steem. I have already started though.

With sufficient resources, I can promote Steemit on

• social media with e-fliers

• create promotional videos (such as asking 2 or 3 steemians to make a 1-2 min video on Steem and what they've enjoyed so far, combine the clips; different groups: women, students, cryptolovers, foodcontents etc ) for sponsored ads

• mass promotion with a team on branded Tshirts , sensitizing the public, organizing seminars in school creating awareness and educating the young early on a "social media merged with a cryptocurrency" where they can earn from writing instead of wasting quality time on other social media that doesn't fetch them anything but harm their youthful minds.

• encourage the use of Steem as exchange, this is a long-term project.
  

Contributing to the growth of the platform

My desire is to become a big investor on the Steem Blockchain. I understand that with big investment, the platform keeps growing. With big investment, I can also sponsor projects and support contests rewards on the platform.

My current goal is to keep building my Steempower to the point (100K SP & more) that I can significantly support other users with quality upvotes. This I have been working at with regular powerups. Nevertheless, as my Steempower grows, I support quality posts and comments with upvotes.

When users receive regular upvotes on their quality posts and comments, it encourages them to continue publishing quality contents and boosts engagements among steemians.

This in a way contributes to the growth of the platform.

I also support communities with some delegations and beneficiaries, all in a bit for growth on the platform.

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